Platinum is element 78, a transition metal of the d block, in group 10, period 6. Its ground-state configuration is [Xe] 4f14 5d9 6s1, and it usually shows the oxidation states 0, 4.
It was discovered in 1557, by Scaliger.
Name origin: the Spanish platina, meaning 'little silver'.
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